This simple plugin permanently redirects all 404’s to the main blog URL. There may be several reasons why you might want to do this, but the primary purpose is to siphon Google Page Rank (TM) from missing pages to the homepage.

The installation process is very basic:

Upload the unzipped plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

That’s it!

If you’re having issues with the installation, you can read detailed instructions here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins

Do I have to configure anything?

Nope. The plugin is ready to go once you install it.

Can you give me some examples for why this plugin may be beneficial to me?

Sure!

Example #1: If you acquire a pre-owned domain (that you intend to run WordPress with), you might not want to recreate every page that was part of the original site. Alternatively, you might not want to build an exhaustive list of 301’s either. Enter the 404 Redirection plugin. Now, you’ll never have to worry about not salvaging every drip of link-juice.

EPS 301 Redirects helps you manage and create 301 redirects for your WordPress website to improve your SEO and guest experience. With a user-friendly interface, EPS 301 Redirects is easy to install and configure. This plugin is installed on over 20,000 WordPress Websites, and the number grows higher every day. This plugin is perfect for new site designs, repairing links after re-organizing your existing WordPress content, or when your site has content that expires and you wish to avoid sending visitors to 404 pages.

A 404 logger (pro version), that will easily convert into new redirects.

The Pro version of EPS 301 Redirects includes a new 404 logging feature:

The Pro Version of EPS 301 Redirects will add a new 404 tracking feature. Every 404 error will be logged, and you will have the power and flexibility to redirect them wherever you want them to go.

See which Request URLs are causing 404 errors on your site.

Discover which 404 errors are receiving the most traffic.

Improve SEO by lowering your total number of 404 errors.

Easily fix the 404 errors by turning them into redirects.

What is a 301 Redirect?
A redirect is a simple way to re-route traffic coming to a Requested URL to different Destination URL.

A 301 redirect indicates that the page requested has been permanently moved to the Destination URL, and helps pass on the Requested URLs traffic in a search engine friendly manner. Creating a 301 redirect tells search engines that the Requested URL has moved permanently, and that the content can now be found on the Destination URL. An important feature is that search engines will pass along any clout the Requested URL used to have to the Destination URL.

When Should I use EPS 301 Redirects?
1. Replacing an old site design with a new site design
1. Overhauling or re-organizing your existing WordPress content
1. You have content that expires (or is otherwise no longer available) and you wish to redirect users elsewhere.

A redirect is a simple way to re-route traffic coming to a Requested URL to different Destination URL.

A 301 redirect indicates that the page requested has been permanently moved to the Destination URL, and helps pass on the Requested URLs traffic in a search engine friendly manner. Creating a 301 redirect tells search engines that the Requested URL has moved permanently, and that the content can now be found on the Destination URL. An important feature is that search engines will pass along any clout the Requested URL used to have to the Destination URL.

I’m getting an error about the default permalink structure?

EPS 301 Redirects requires that you use anything but the default permalink structure.

My redirects aren’t working

This could be caused by many things, but please ensure that you are supplying valid URLs. Most common are extra spaces, extra slashes, spelling mistakes and invalid characters. If you’re sure they’re right, chances are your browser has cached the 301 redirect (in an attempt to make the redirection faster for you), but sometimes it doesn’t refresh as fast as we would like. Clear your browser cache, or wait a few minutes to fix this problem.
My redirects aren’t working – the old .html page still shows
For this plugin to work, the page must be within the WordPress environment. If you are redirecting older .html or .php files, you must first delete them. The plugin can’t redirect if the file still exists, sorry! You should look into .htaccess redirects if you want to keep these files on your server.

My redirects aren’t getting the 301 status code

Your Request or Redirect URLS may be incorrect; please ensure that you are supplying valid URLs. Check slashes. Try Viewing the page by clicking the Request URL – does it load correctly?

How do I delete a redirect?

Click the small X beside the redirect you wish to remove.

How do I add wildcards. or folder redirects?

Unfortunately this is not supported. You should look into .htaccess redirects for these advanced features.

What about query strings?

By default, any URL with a query string is considered unique, and will redirect to a unique page (if you so wish). The query string will be added to the Destination URL, which allows you to keep your tracking codes, affiliate codes, and other important data!

2.3.0

Added sorting. Fixed a bug when upgrading from V1 to V2, and the infamous “Invalid Destination” url.

2.2.7

That silly bug with the database tables not being created has been squashed. Improved query performance.

2.2.6

Added support for custom plugin directories.

2.2.4

Support for older versions of PHP.

2.2.3

Fixed an issue where the redirect database tables were not being created, causing ‘Invalid Destination URL’ errors.

Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk Uploader adds an extra section to the settings tab
to upload a CSV of old and new URL’s to input into the Simple 301 Redirects plugin. An example CSV is bundled in with the plugin to get you going quickly.

The plugin checks for duplicate old URLs and alerts you of these in the summary after your CSV has been processed.

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If you have any suggestions or would like to see a feature in the plugin, please let me know in the support forum.

Any issues you are having, I’d also love to know, so again, please let me know using the support forum.

A CSV is a Comma-Separated Values file, which put simply, is a spreadsheet saved in a particular format.

What can I use to create a CSV?

To easily create a CSV file, use a spreadsheet program like Excel or Open Office Spreadsheets. Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk Uploader is setup to handle a 2 column
CSV with the old URL in the first column and the new URL in the second column.

Easily redirect any post or page to another page with a dropdown menu or by manually typing in a URL. Check out the screenshots. This plugin also changes permalinks and menus to point directly to the new location of the redirect – this prevents bots from getting a redirect and helps boost your SEO.

Affiliate Links is a WordPress plugin for creating and shortening any internal or external links.
This plugin will be useful for masking partner links to affiliate websites.
You can also use it for shortening long URLs to simple pretty links such as ‘mysite.com/go/link’.

First of all you can try premium version of this plugin.
We can help you tuning the plugin up to your needs, or even creating a new one from scratch, per your requirements. Drop us your request and we will get back with the estimate shortly.

This plugin adds a new Post Type; making it SUPER easy to create redirections on your site. From anywhere — to anywhere! It even creates redirection links for you (i.e. Redirect Permalinks — using these is optional however).

After installing this plugin, create a new Redirect (find menu item on the left in your Dashboard). Redirects can be simple or complex. You can even use regular expression patterns! It is also possible to control the HTTP status code that is sent to a browser during redirection.

By default, only WordPress® Administrators can manage (i.e. create/edit/delete/manage) Redirects. Editors and Authors can create/edit/delete their own Redirects, but permissions are limited for Editors/Authors. If you would like to give other WordPress Roles the Capabilities required, please use a plugin like Enhanced Capability Manager.

Add the following Capabilities to the additional Roles that should be allowed to manage Redirects.

NOTE: There are also some WordPress filters integrated into the code for this plugin, which can make permissions easier to deal with in many cases. You can have a look at the source code and determine how to proceed on your own; if you choose this route.

v141009

New Feature: Hit counter. WP Redirects will now keep track of how many times a redirect has been used. There is a new, sortable Hits column in the main Redirects list that allows you to sort your redirects by the number of hits. See #4.

New Feature: Last Access Time. WP Redirects will now keep track of the date and time a redirect was last used. There is a new, sortable Last Access column in the main Redirects list that allows you to sort your redirect by the last access time. See #4.

Enhancement: Overhauled the New/Edit Redirect screen. Sections are now modular meta boxes that can be hidden/shown using the Screen Options panel. Lots of inline documentation was also added to help clarify each option. See #13.

Enhancement: Refactored codebase to improve readability and organization of code. See #9.

New Maintainer: Added raamdev to the contributors list. Raam Dev will now be maintaining the WP Redirects plugin.

Alternatively, you can install the plugin via the built in WordPress installer.

Can I change the redirect location?

Absolutely, but there is no GUI for it. There is the filter cd_ad_redirect for you to hook into and customize away. This filter fires after template_redirect, so you can use can of the Conditional Tags.

Go Redirects is a URL forwarder plugin for WordPress that enables URLs like http://mysite.com/go/far-far-away/ to forward to URLs like http://someothersite.com/. It’s a great way to create clean-looking affiliate links or provide permement links for remote URLs that may change over time. It includes analytics for the number of times a URL has been forwarded.

Upload and activate the plugin.

Go to Settings → Permalinks and resave your permalink settings.

I’m getting 404 errors when I try to visit my redirects. What do I do?

Go to Settings → Permalinks and resave your permalink settings.

Can I change the redirects base URL slug from `/go/` to something else?

There is no setting to do so at this time. It is called Go Redirects after all.